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Seasoned Executive Brings Extensive Track Record in New Technology
Introduction to Leading Hyperconvergence Company

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scale
Computing, developers of HC3,
the industry’s leading hyperconverged solution built for midmarket
companies that seamlessly combines servers, storage and virtualization
into a single system, announced today that Alan Cohen has joined its Board
of Directors. Alan is a technology veteran who has worked at some of
the industry’s leading companies such as Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and IBM
(NYSE: IBM), as well as several disruptive startups in networking and
software technology, including Nicira, Airespace and Tahoe Networks.

“Virtualization is the most powerful force in computing today and Scale
dramatically lowers the burden and cost of deploying and managing it
within a huge and incredibly underserved market segment”

“Alan joins our Board of Directors at an exciting time as we accelerate
our ability to bring easy-to-use and affordable products to small and
midmarket IT, building on a range of new capabilities in our HC3
platform,” said Jeff
Ready, CEO of Scale Computing. “His combined go-to-market experience
and industry knowledge will help guide Scale as we continue to lead the virtualization
hyperconvergence trend in the midmarket.”

Most recently, Alan was the VP of Marketing for Nicira,
through VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) purchase of the company for $1.26 billion.
Prior to that, he spent over 6 years as Cisco,
including VP of Enterprise Solutions, leading a marketing and solutions
portfolio that represented over half of Cisco’s revenue.

“Virtualization is the most powerful force in computing today and Scale
dramatically lowers the burden and cost of deploying and managing it
within a huge and incredibly underserved market segment,” said Cohen.
“When you combine Scale’s Apple-like simplicity with a vast, open
playing field, you are offered a tremendous opportunity. With only 10
percent of the midmarket virtualized, I’m very much looking forward to
helping Scale capitalize on this with HC3.”

Prior to Cisco, Alan led marketing and product management at Airespace,
a pioneering Enterprise Wireless LAN Company Cisco acquired in 2005 for
$450 million. Alan’s earlier professional experiences including
management and executive roles at U S WEST and Coopers & Lybrand. He is
a graduate of the New York University Stern School of Business, American
University’s School of International Service and SUNY Buffalo. He is a
frequent contributor to tech blogs like ReadWrite, Fortune, TechCrunch
and PandoDaily. His personal blog, Ineluctable
Modality, focuses on transitions in technology.

Scale
Computing develops IT infrastructure products for small to
medium-sized organizations based on its patented ICOS [Intelligent
Clustered Operating System] technology. Since launching its initial
scale-out storage solution in 2009, Scale has grown to over 1,100
deployments. Scale is currently expanding its footprint throughout the
datacenter with what analysts are calling the industry’s first
hyperconverged architecture, HC3. Scale’s HC3
seamlessly integrates storage, servers and virtualization into a
scalable, turnkey infrastructure that’s as easy to manage as a single
server. Designed specifically for IT generalists, HC3 is
ideal for those who have not yet adopted virtualization due to cost and
complexity, enabling them to run highly available applications. For
additional info, visit www.scalecomputing.com.